Fakes

Meet Facebook’s latest fake

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 35-year-old billionaire who keeps refusing to sit in front of international parliamentarians to answer questions about his ad business’ impact on democracy and hu

Red Points closes $38M Series C for its ‘antivirus’ SaaS for brands

Barcelona-based Red Points has closed a $38 million Series C led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Northzone, Mangrove, Eight Roads Ventures and Banco Sabadell also participated in the funding ro

Facebook buys ads in Indian newspapers to warn about WhatsApp fakes

As Twitter finally gets serious about purging fake accounts, and YouTube says it will try to firefight conspiracy theories and fake news flaming across its platform with $25M to fund bona fide journal

Forum user tries to activate fake iPhone

A MacRumors forums user asked for help with activating his brand new iPhone. It turns out the poor bastard bought a Chinese knock-off so well-made that it would fool anyone who hasn’t actually s

Mac Fusion: The new Mac Mini? Or escapee from Fake City, USA?

Another day, another blurry screen shot of Apple promotional material featuring a product that might or might not exist in the very, very near future. This one’s the Mac Fusion, apparently a no-

CiPhone: The "C" is for quality

I’ve seen some iPhone fakes in my day, but this just about takes the cake. Meet the CiPhone, an almost note-perfect copy of the iPhone. I’ve said this again and again: if Chinese engineers

HTC Magnum: Well played, Portugal. Well played.

Remember that post about the HTC Magnum yesterday? The giant tablet phone thingy with a 30-hour battery? It’s fake. Can you believe it?! Portuguese jokesters over at Pocketpt.net had apparently

China's getting a fake iPhone for fakey fakes who like fakery

[photopress:0097.jpg,full,center] Hey, China! Have we got something for you! No, it’s not an iPhone, it’s an iFauxne! The T32 is an iPhone clone running Windows Mobile 6: Smartphone Editio

My favorite MacBook Air mock-up so far

[photopress:2192321716_b26f11f201_o.jpg,full,center] We’ve been talking quite a bit about this new MacBook Air, or whatever Steve’s going to call it (I like MacBook Shuffleâ„¢), and we&#82

Cellphone Flask: Can You Smell the Booze On Me Now? Good!

When I was a teenager, we’d smuggle our booze in my friend Devon’s head (no, really, it’s a long story). Today’s rebellious youth are much more sophisticated: they’re usi

Zune With Cordless Headphones: File Next to Pigs, Flying

A little bird sent us this clearly doctored image of a Zune with some mysterious “WiFi” headphones that apparently use a chip technology yet unknown to modern man to compress a DSP and Wi-